Virtualisation is a trend which is increasingly growing in importance - with many organisations now looking at how they can incorporate virtualised environments within their wider IT stack.
What is Virtualisation?
Virtualisation refers to software that runs within a "virtual" environment. OS (Operating Systems), Servers and Applications can all be emulated - meaning they don't run on tangible hardware. This gives the powerful ability to run numerous operating systems, applications and even servers on a single physical box.
Why Virtualisation?
Virtualisation can significantly improve the agility of your IT infrastructure, along with easier administration of your systems and potentially huge cost savings.
Other wide-reaching benefits include:
- Server consolidation (e.g running multiple operating systems on one physical server, resulting in increased efficiencies)
- Easing the creation of robust backup and recovery strategies
- The ability to host legacy systems
- Heavily reduced development and testing costs - enabling you to get maximum ROI from your hardware investments, and improve PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)
- Reduce downtime - the flexibility of a virtual set-up helps reduce scheduled and unscheduled downtime
- More energy efficient: fewer physical servers means big savings on your energy expenditure and a smaller carbon footprint
Teamsolve offers end-to-end Virtualisation solutions using a variety of industry best practice technologies including VMware and Oracle VM. We can work with you on a strategic level to determine which technologies will best suit your individual business needs. Assuming responsiblity for as much or as little of implementations as possible - Teamsolve can look after everything from sourcing and installing blade servers to setting up Oracle 11g instances on Oracle VM.
Contact us today to discuss how a Teamsolve Virtualisation solution can improve efficiencies and significantly reduce the running costs of IT in your organisation.
